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For Fifa, world football’s governing body and overseer of next year’s World Cup in Brazil, “someday soon” is hurtling nearer with too few encouraging signs that Rio is ready. The World Cup has only once before been snatched at the last minute from the grip of its host. Fifa decided that Colombia was not ready for the challenge of running the competition in 1986. It moved to Mexico instead. Twenty-seven years on, Fifa once more finds itself running out of fingernails to chew